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Smoking and Obesity in a Social Context

Kia Davis, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Background: Smoking and obesity are the leading causes of preventable death in the United States and known cancer risk factors, yet the patterning of these conditions within low-income and immigrant populations is not well understood. The distribution of social-environmental stressors is also poorly understood in these populations. Furthermore, the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and stress is understudied. Therefore, this dissertation explores the association between SES, psychosocial stress and social-environmental stressors, self-reported smoking and measured obesity. Methods: Papers 1 and 2 used cross-sectional data from the Health in Common study of racially/ethnically diverse adults living in low-income housing in the Boston metropolitan area (n=828). Paper 1 examined associations between SES, chronic stress, and smoking while paper 2 explored the relationship...

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